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T.S. Eliot's The Wasteland famously begins "April is the cruellest month," and nowadays nowhere is that more apt than college admissions. As Inside Higher Education reported, last month Brown University admitted 2,566 applicants and...

The fraternity of former restaurant workers is large and proud. It's also not hard to recognize us. It might be the efficient-yet-elegant way we clear our plates. Or the way we pour wine, slightly twisting the bottle at the end.

My first real job was a triumphant lesson in unplanned obsolescence. I landed a paid internship at a New York PR firm called Creamer Dickson Basford and was assigned to the Pizza Hut account. It was an auspicious summer for Pizza Hut public relations. Not only was Pizza Hut launching...

Of the dozens of brilliant moments in Christopher Guest and Rob Reiner's masterful rock parody Spinal Tap, my favorite is an ambitious plan gone awry. Faced with a case of the drabs on their U.S. tour, lead guitar Nigel Tufnel suggests reviving a number...

Perhaps because college was so consumed with pranks, it wasn't until the relatively mirthless years of law school that I was able to achieve my dream of playing in a rock and roll band. My brother Aaron had always been a drummer...

By now, most Americans are used to President Trump using words that, if not inappropriate, are quite wrong. It's clear he's a far cry from his idol, the Great Communicator, what with speeches that are varyingly at a 4th grade vocabulary level or read off the teleprompter at a protracted pace.

It seems like everyone's talking about apprenticeships. Apprenticeships were the Trump Administration's first postsecondary education initiative; in June 2017, President Trump signed an executive order aiming to use apprenticeships to train five million Americans...